China Open 2005 Final

**event** · 11-12-2005, 06:58 PM

Originally Posted by chibe_K

I feel very frustrated, the official website for China Open is soo......disappointing and un-usable, only the homepage pops up successfully and none of the links to results works !!! I want to tell the organizer please do not even attempt to open a website to the world if it cannot handle the volume <img>

I haven't had any trouble with links not working. Only problem is info that was never there. Now the results are up in English but not in Chinese and the English results are missing the XD and the Bao/Gade results. The big problem, though, is that yesterday, and I assume it will be the same today, the order of the matches wasn't up until the broadcast started. Today that will be a pain because I want to know when not to watch it. I have no interest in all those all-Chinese finals. How many times have we seen Zhang vs. Xie this year? I've lost count. And Gao/Huang vs. Zhang/Yang? Hasn't it been like 10 each? Okay, Bao/Chen isn't so common in a final. Chen was exciting yesterday. Maybe I'll be able to stay awake for it. (it'll be afternoon or evening here, by the way).

**Djiban** · 11-12-2005, 07:35 PM

do u guys what time is it in vancouver the final will be held?

**ghostnhero** · 11-12-2005, 07:37 PM

i hope bao chun lai can win...

**w3wmfhe** · 11-12-2005, 07:45 PM

Originally Posted by Djiban

do u guys what time is it in vancouver the final will be held?

should be pacific time at 10 pm

**2cents** · 11-12-2005, 08:00 PM

with his momentum, Chen Hong is difficult to stop

**Big Mark** · 11-12-2005, 08:35 PM

Do you know what time in China the games are on & what the order is ?Also, will CCTV 5 be showing them or Guandong TV ?

Thanks

**event** · 11-12-2005, 08:35 PM

Originally Posted by w3wmfhe

should be pacific time at 10 pm

Are you sure about that? Aren't you GMT -8h on the Pacific coast? Beijing and Guangzhou are GMT +8h and the starting time is 1PM. That 16 hour difference would make it 9PM your time.

GDTV says they'll start broadcasting at 12:55PM.

The CCTV-5 schedule isn't coming up at the moment but this old post by yannie says they'll be chiming in at 2PM.

These times aren't necessarily reliable. GDTV's schedule yesterday said they'd start broadcasting at 7PM but they started at 6PM and I think they were almost an hour late on a previous day.

**Big Mark** · 11-12-2005, 08:41 PM

Guys,

Im in Sydney, Australia & we are 3 hours ahead of the badminton in China

Cheers

**event** · 11-12-2005, 08:50 PM

Originally Posted by Big Mark

Do you know what time in China the games are on & what the order is ?Also, will CCTV 5 be showing them or Guandong TV ?

Thanks

No idea about the order. Last night, they didn't appear on the live scoring site until the beginning of the broadcast: 19:00. Likely the same today. Check my previous post for the other info you requested.

Two hours left to get PPLive working. Please download the latest version from the website.

After that, find GDTV(广东体育) or, after 2PM, CCTV-5 on the channel list webpage in Chinese. I find the CCTV-5 link that says "CCTV-5 (800K)" works the best. If the Synacast links I've provided here don't work(and I'm assuming that would mean that selecting the channel from the channel list page wouldn't), you can find these channels from the menus when you right-click the system tray icon (after running your newly installed PPLive). The third arrow(hmm, it was fourth yesterday with v1.0.9.7 - may not be constant) in the Channel List menu is for Sports and under that menu, the first one should be GDTV and the CCTV-5 links are readable in English.

If all that doesn't work, give us a symptom or try PPStream (I don't use it because it won't give me proper Chinese characters on my non-Chinese OS but that isn't an issue once CCTV starts broadcasting). Some have even been using SopCast, I hear.

It will work better if all of us are using the same system, though, so please take the time to try to get PPLive working.

**Djiban** · 11-12-2005, 09:10 PM

let's use sopcast

**alloh** · 11-12-2005, 09:31 PM

For WS I would take Xie Xingfang.
Don't forget, this China Open is in GoungZhou, the hometwon of Xie Xingfang.

**jermaine** · 11-12-2005, 09:31 PM

quite shocking to see chen hong in final.. but i think bao cl will win eventually unless chen hong really is on top form.

**event** · 11-12-2005, 09:38 PM

Originally Posted by Djiban

let's use sopcast

I disagree. That is a bad idea because

a) I just tried the latest version and despite having 236 users on the CCTV-5 channel, the quality was TERRIBLE; and

b) it doesn't have Guangdong Sports and for the first hour of this afternoon's coverage, that will be the only game in town.

PPLive is the way to go.

**w3wmfhe** · 11-12-2005, 09:59 PM

from what i know .Bejing and Guangzhou are in the same time zone....don' know why CCTV5 and GDTV aren't broadcasting at different time..

for CCTV5 will broacast at 2pm which is 10pm pacific time

for GDTV is 9pm pacific time. GDTV is currently broadcasting NBA now..phonex SUN vs GS warriors

**madbad** · 11-12-2005, 10:11 PM

These are who I WANT to win:
MS : Chen Hong (because everyone else wants BCL to win)
WS : Xie Xing Fang (to prove she's not under Zhang Ning's thumb)
MD : Candra Wijaya/Sigit Budiarto (because they're so damn good)
WD : Gao Ling/Huang Sui (about time these two reversed the tables on the other two)
XD : Nathan Robertson/Gail Emms (their comeback party. Aaarrrr matey!)